Tracking Frauds on Forum

dino · 03-22-2007

There are already frauds on forums. Users who have been found guilty of this just change their usernames and they are on to doing it again. How can we check this? Is there a way to see the IP addresses of the members? If we are just a regular member of the forum and not the webmaster, can we see other members' IP address? I think tracking IP address is one way to track scammers.

KHyuga · 03-22-2007

Yes, tracking the IP address of members is a form of fraud protection.
Usually, the forum moderators and admin would be able to view the IP address of every forum member, and so they can weed out the troublemakers rather easily.

qaswer · 03-25-2007

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Originally Posted by KHyuga

Yes, tracking the IP address of members is a form of fraud protection.
Usually, the forum moderators and admin would be able to view the IP address of every forum member, and so they can weed out the troublemakers rather easily.

Yes forum moderators and administrators are able to view I.P's of users but i shall like to say that you can't trace if user is on Dial up because dial ups assign users a different I.P every time they log on again . There should be some strong solution for this .

Sakuragi · 03-26-2007

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Originally Posted by qaswer

Yes forum moderators and administrators are able to view I.P's of users but i shall like to say that you can't trace if user is on Dial up because dial ups assign users a different I.P every time they log on again . There should be some strong solution for this .

Well, at least there aren't many internet users who are on dial-up right now.
For that matter, it's hard to trace those who are on proxies as well.
At least we can safely say that the problem is largely solved with the ability to detect IPs for moderators and admins.

clookid · 03-27-2007

You can easily track their ips by asking mods/admins but they could be at it simply using a proxy!

Bad Credit · 03-27-2007

Aren't there more ways to detect if it is the same person? How about their writing style, typos, punctuation, pages visited, screen res, plus.. can't you block those proxy sites on a list? I know it is not nice to block all proxies.. but I'm just asking, because I am not sure how this works.

I am a member of a community that shares adsense and obviously you're only supposed to have one adsense ID and you don't get in the community without one, so at least it seems to be a clean place with value and honesty. Hopefully people won't sign up with others' account numbers, tsk tsk!

eleven · 03-27-2007

The problem with tracking by ip is that someone using the same computer will be implicated to the crime even if it was just a coworker or something.

sfod_d223 · 03-28-2007

In some of the more open source forum software..an admin can track the ip's of individual posters. The key is to not enable the ip to be seen in the forum boards.

dovic1 · 04-05-2007

I think that if someone wanted to commit fraud. they can do it. As soon as they find one way to catch someone, they find another way. Some people are so computer savvy.

ltjman22 · 04-06-2007

Yes, you can ban the IP addresses of the people on the forum! Just keep banning Ip's and they will slowely disapear!

03-22-2007	#1 (permalink)
dino Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Tracking Frauds on Forum There are already frauds on forums. Users who have been found guilty of this just change their usernames and they are on to doing it again. How can we check this? Is there a way to see the IP addresses of the members? If we are just a regular member of the forum and not the webmaster, can we see other members' IP address? I think tracking IP address is one way to track scammers.

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Bad Credit Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: usa Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	more than one way to skin a scam Aren't there more ways to detect if it is the same person? How about their writing style, typos, punctuation, pages visited, screen res, plus.. can't you block those proxy sites on a list? I know it is not nice to block all proxies.. but I'm just asking, because I am not sure how this works. I am a member of a community that shares adsense and obviously you're only supposed to have one adsense ID and you don't get in the community without one, so at least it seems to be a clean place with value and honesty. Hopefully people won't sign up with others' account numbers, tsk tsk! __________________ take it as it happens!

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sfod_d223 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 107 Rep Power: 2	In some of the more open source forum software..an admin can track the ip's of individual posters. The key is to not enable the ip to be seen in the forum boards. __________________ ~ Own Your Keywords~\| Do U 113 ?

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KHyuga Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 58 Rep Power: 2	Yes, tracking the IP address of members is a form of fraud protection. Usually, the forum moderators and admin would be able to view the IP address of every forum member, and so they can weed out the troublemakers rather easily.

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clookid Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 100 Rep Power: 2	You can easily track their ips by asking mods/admins but they could be at it simply using a proxy!

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eleven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	The problem with tracking by ip is that someone using the same computer will be implicated to the crime even if it was just a coworker or something.

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dovic1 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Rep Power: 2	I think that if someone wanted to commit fraud. they can do it. As soon as they find one way to catch someone, they find another way. Some people are so computer savvy.

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ltjman22 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 409 Rep Power: 0	Yes, you can ban the IP addresses of the people on the forum! Just keep banning Ip's and they will slowely disapear!

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